What we [Brucke-artists] had to remove ourselves from [the German bourgeois mores] was clear; where we were heading was certainly less clear.
We saw your [ Cuno Amiet's ] work with feelings of admiration and enthusiasm… Our group [ Die Brucke ] would be exceedingly glad to find in you a comrade in arms and a champion of its cause.
He [ Otto Mueller ] himself omitted certain things in his pictures that his contemporaries deemed to be of importance, in order to capture the essence…. with the greatest possible simplicity.